Minnesota North Stars vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Saturday, December 22, 1990 · Boston Garden
Game summary
The Boston Bruins beat the Minnesota North Stars 6–2 on Saturday, December 22, 1990 at Boston Garden. The Bruins outshot the North Stars 35–33.
Goals came from Jeff Lazaro, Dave Christian, Cam Neely, Garry Galley, Randy Burridge, Vladimir Ruzicka, Mike Modano and Brian Bellows.
Andy Moog made 31 saves on 33 shots for the win; Brian Hayward stopped 8 of 12.
Scoring
1st period
Jeff Lazaro (2)Bob Sweeney (15)0–111:11 BOS
2nd period
Dave Christian (15)Unassisted0–200:29 BOS
Cam Neely (19)Vladimir Ruzicka (8), Craig Janney (21)0–302:10 BOS · 
Garry Galley (5)Bob Sweeney (16), Ken Hodge (11)0–406:15 BOS
Randy Burridge (11)Dave Christian (9), Don Sweeney (6)0–507:33 BOS
3rd period
Vladimir Ruzicka (4)Dave Christian (10), Glen Wesley (12)0–614:12 BOS · 
Mike Modano (10)Ilkka Sinisalo (10), Brian Propp (19)1–614:35 MNS
Brian Bellows (11)Dave Gagner (11), Brian Propp (20)2–617:43 MNS ·
Team stats
MNSBOS
3335
0%0%
1/42/4
1717
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 6:58 into the first period
Glen Wesley · cross checking2 min - 18:22 into the first periodDon Sweeney · holding2 min
- 18:22 into the first period
Doug Smail · roughing2 min - 1:26 into the second periodBrian Propp · tripping2 min
- 14:05 into the second periodBobby Smith · high sticking2 min
- 18:55 into the second periodDave Christian · holding2 min
- 2:53 into the third periodChris Nilan · slashing2 min
- 2:53 into the third periodChris Nilan · fighting5 min
- 2:53 into the third periodBrian Glynn · fighting5 min
- 12:05 into the third periodBobby Smith · cross checking2 min
- 13:24 into the third periodRob Zettler · high sticking2 min
- 14:44 into the third periodJeff Lazaro · roughing2 min
- 14:44 into the third periodJim Johnson · roughing2 min
- 16:12 into the third periodGlen Wesley · roughing2 min
Season series
Minnesota North Stars
| 16Brian ProppL | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 9Mike ModanoC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 15Dave GagnerC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 23Brian BellowsL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | – |
| 25Ilkka SinisaloR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 7Neal BrotenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 10Gaetan DuchesneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 12Stew GavinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 14Doug SmailL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 18Bobby SmithC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 21Perry BerezanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 22Ulf DahlenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 2Curt GilesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Rob ZettlerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Chris DahlquistD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 6Brian GlynnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 8Jim JohnsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 24Mark TinordiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Jon CaseyG | 23 | 2 | .913 | |
| 33Brian HaywardG | L | 12 | 4 | .667 |
Boston Bruins
| 27Dave ChristianR | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 20Bob SweeneyC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 38Vladimir RuzickaC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 8Cam NeelyR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 10Ken HodgeC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 12Randy BurridgeL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 14Jeff LazaroL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 23Craig JanneyC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Glen WesleyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 28Garry GalleyD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 32Don SweeneyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 13Wes WalzC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 19Dave PoulinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 25Andy BrickleyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 30Chris NilanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 36Jim WiemerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 41Allen PedersenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 77Ray BourqueD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Rejean LemelinG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Andy MoogG | W | 33 | 2 | .939 |